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Church · Salerno (SA)

Church of San Benedetto, Salerno

  • Visit: about 20 min
Church of San Benedetto, Salerno
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The Lombard and Romanesque Church of San Benedetto, with its reused Roman columns.

The Church of San Benedetto has Lombard origins and was part of a large Benedictine complex. Destroyed by the Saracens in 884, it was rebuilt in Romanesque style between the 10th and 11th centuries.It has three naves divided by reused Roman columns and a pronaos with arches on columns. Part of the Provincial Archaeological Museum is housed in the old quadriporticus.

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